Mattress tuft



H. J. BURKART Aug. 7, 1923.

MATTRES S TUFT Filed March 24. 1922 Patented at a rare.

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, HARRY J BUEMR'I, @E' SI. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

MATTRESS TUIF'E.

application filed march M, 11922. dcll'lal lilo. M,372.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, l-Isnnr .l. Bummer, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of St. Louis and r State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mattress Tufts, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description, reference bein had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in mattress tufts and has for its object the production of a mattress tuft which is so formed as to facilitate the attaching of said tuft to a mattress.

lhe mattress tufts now in general use each comprise a plurality of strands of cotton or similar material which are bound together by means of a circumferential binding cord located at a point midway between the ends thereof. The circumferential binding cord, which is tightly drawn around the strands of cotton, has the edect of causing the free ends of said strands to flare outwardly whereby the tuft takes the form of a flufiy ball of material.

In app-lying a tuft to a mattress a heavy thread or cord is passed through said mattress in such manner as to provide said thread with looped ends which project from the upper and lower faces of said mattress. A tuft is inserted through each of said loops and the thread is then drawn very tight through the use of a slip-knot, so that depressions are formed in said mattress in which the tufts are seated. y In applying a tuft of the type now in general use, much difficulty is experienced in passing the flared, fiudy end thereof through at one of said loops, and because the work is necessarily done very rapidly it quite frequently happens that only the extreme ends of a few of the strands of a tuft are engaged by the loo with the result that said tuft is 4 disengage from said mattress after same has been in use a comparatively short time.

My improved mattress tuft is made in tubular form, the strands of which said tuft is composed being interlaced or braided whereby anvextreme flaring of the ends of said tuft is prevented andthe objections set forth above eliminated.

Fig. I is a plan view of a completed mattress showing the tufts in place thereon.

Fig. II is a fragmentary side elevation of a mattress, part of said mattress being broken away to show the manner of attachmg the tufts thereto.

ig. III is a side elevation of my improved tuft.

Fig. IV is a cross section through the tuft shown in Fig. III.

F ig.V is a sectional view through a mattress, showing a tuft after" same has been inserted through ,a loop in the cord but before said cord is drawn tight.

Fig. VI is a view similar \to Fig. V but illustrating the mattress as it will appear after the cord has been drawn tight.

In the drawing, A designates a mattress which comprises a filler B and a covering of ticking or similar material C, said mattress, as is usual, being provided with reinforcing elements D, formed by shaping and stitching said ticking to form reinforcin rolls at the points where the upper and lower faces of said mattress meet the sides thereof.

In mattresses of the type illustrated, a plurality of anchor threads or cords E are passed through the mattress from the top to the bottom thereof, each of said anchor threads, after same has been passed through said mattress, being in the form of an elongated loop, the opposite curved ends of which extend outwardly from the top and bottom faces of the mattress. The ends of each of the threads E are tied together by means of a slip-knot 19 whereby said loop thread may be drawn very tight by pulling one of said ends.

The purpose of the anchor threads E is to provide a means whereby portions of the filling within the mattress will be prevented from being displaced from their original positions within said mattress, thus minimizing the danger of said filling becoming lumpy.

'Io revent the threads I] from cuttin throng the .ticlring C and the filling when said threads are drawn tight, 1 interv pose tufts G between the curved ends of the looped thread and the top andbottom face of the mattress, each of said tufts G being composed of a plurality of strands. of cat W ten or similar material which are interwoven or braided in-a manner to produce a tuft which is tubular in cross section. (Fig. IV). The strands of a tuft are not interwoven to a the extreme end of said tuft but said interltd dll lldtl weaving stops short of said ends whereby the free ends of said strands will Provide the tuft with soft, flufiy ends (Fig. 11).

In applying my improved tufts to a mattress each of said tufts, because of the abance and all of the softness of the tufts heretofore used.

I claim: 1. A mattress tuft comprising a plurality of longitudinal strands of flexible mate rial, said strands being braided to form -a tubular body, and said tubular body being provided with soft end portions.

2. A mattress tuft comprising a pluralit of longitudinal strands of flexible materia a portion of said strands between the ends thereof being braided to form a tubular body.

3. A mattress tuftcomprising a plurality of longitudinal strands of flexible material, a portion of the length of said strands being braided to form a complete tubular body and the opposite ends of said strands flaring outwardly to provide said tubular body with soft ends.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I hereunto aflix my signature.

HARRY J. BURKART. 

